Molly Redden

All Work

The first half of the Radical Opera panel, moderated by Alex Ross, turned around a discussion of what opera is and where it fits into modern music. “It’s the art of democracy,” the outre opera director and sometimes-librettist Peter Sellars said. “[…

Even if Obama and congressional Democrats make it through the August blitz of town halls, health-care legislation will still have muck its way through a labyrinthine legislative process that gives opponents two major advantages: time and a paper trail. Articles from The New Yorker…

Even before Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination was announced, the conservative activist Manuel Miranda had emerged as the leader of a group determined to knock her out. Miranda is practiced at the art of influencing nominations, as Jeffrey Toobin wrote in 2007: Miranda came to…

Today’s Times reports that President Obama recently made Atul Gawande’s article on rising health-care costs, from the June 1, 2009, issue of The New Yorker, required reading in the Oval Office. He cited it while meeting with a group of Democratic senators: “He …